Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Hardware

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Supercomputing-class resources:

Blacklight: Blacklight is an SGI UV shared memory system with 4096 cores and 32 Tbytes of shared memory.
Salk: Salk is an SGI Altix SMP machine with 144 cores and 288 Gbytes of shared memory, dedicated to biomedical research.
Warhol: Warhol is an HP c3000 cluster machine with 64 cores and 128 Gbytes of memory. Warhol is available to academic researchers in Pennsylvania and also to government and private sector researchers anywhere in the U.S.
Axon: Axon is a 32-node cluster with a total of 256 cores. Most nodes contain 8 Gbytes of memory; 4 nodes have 16 Gbytes.
BioU: BioU is a 3-node computational cluster containing 16 cores and 128 Gbytes of memory per node. BioU is available to researchers conducting biomedical research.
Codon: Codon is the front end to a twenty node cluster. Each compute node has two 1.4 GHz AMD Opteron processors and 4 Gbytes of memory.
The Data Supercell: The Data Supercell, PSC's low cost, high bandwidth, high capacity and high reliability data management system.

Linux front end: Linux front end pscuxa is used to access the supercomputing-class machines and for mail. pscuxa is a 1.6GHz dual-CPU Opteron system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (resembling other Unix systems) and has 2GB of memory and 80GB of mirrored local disk space.